Maybe it's another Incident at Loch Ness, but you gotta admit, Herzog is the "do that" director.
Zombies! Hyena people! Snyder!
Student ,'Touched'
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bon bon - May 15, 2008 1:10:50 pm PDT #5729 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Laga - May 15, 2008 1:17:23 pm PDT #5730 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'm still holding out hope for
so-bad-it's-funny appalling
beekaytee - May 15, 2008 2:24:02 pm PDT #5731 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
I don't like any of Ferrara's movies
Oy. My feeling after each one has been, "Dude. If life sucks so hard, take a nap for goodness sake. Here's a lolly. Want a hug?"
Not because I think we should avoid the harder edges...by no means...but his worldview seems sooo desolate that the fact that he has children troubles me.
It will be interesting to see what sort of train-wreck comes of the Herzog/Cage pairing. Worse than Wicker Man? Es pos-EEE-blay.
And speaking of Neil Labute and, by extension, Todd Solondz...they should go into peer counseling with Ferrara. Their sooper sekrit motto would start with "It's a cruel, cruel world."
Hm. I'm fascinated by my own vehemence over these guys. I won't deny their talent, but yeeesh, that genre...whatever it may be called...really pings me.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 15, 2008 2:37:19 pm PDT #5732 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I wish I knew Russian, as I feel certain that language has a word for the concept of "possessed of a quality so bleak and joyless that it saps one's will to live."
DavidS - May 15, 2008 2:46:17 pm PDT #5733 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't like any of Ferrara's movies
Ms. 45!
beekaytee - May 15, 2008 2:48:04 pm PDT #5734 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
"possessed of a quality so bleak and joyless that it saps one's will to live."
That's IT!
And perfectly timed Matt, to coincide with my new tagline which comes from the 11th Hour promo on CBS.
I'm irked!
Polter-Cow - May 15, 2008 2:57:20 pm PDT #5735 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And perfectly timed Matt, to coincide with my new tagline which comes from the 11th Hour promo on CBS.
That's from The Mentalist.
JZ - May 15, 2008 3:10:39 pm PDT #5736 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I wish I knew Russian, as I feel certain that language has a word for the concept of "possessed of a quality so bleak and joyless that it saps one's will to live."
I don't know; it sounds more likely to be a German word. In my (admittedly limited) experience with actual Russians and USians who grew up with Russian immigrant parents, they often manage the weird balancing act of being both very gloomy and oddly exuberant about the depths of their gloom. Not just sad and hopeless, but extravagantly, poetically, positively vibrantly sad and hopeless.
beekaytee - May 15, 2008 3:24:41 pm PDT #5737 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
That's from The Mentalist.
Right you are, Sir! See how irked I am? IRKED.
Laga - May 15, 2008 3:54:46 pm PDT #5738 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I loved Iron Man so much. It scared me and touched me, made me laugh and go "ooh!" and everything a good action movie oughtta do.
Speed Racer made me glad I hadn't paid for my ticket. I think it could have been a good 2 hour movie but (like the 2nd and 3rd matrix movies) too many scenes cried out for an editor. Still it had moments of joy and Emile Hirsch, John Goodman and Christina Ricci were fabulous (as were the kid and chimp playing Spritle and Chim-Chim). I thought Susan Sarandon was mostly wasted. I'm glad I saw it because now I can explain it to others.